DEM internal polling shows Chuck Edwards getting edged out in NC-11
Here’s yet another example where a weak top-of-the-ticket for the NCGOP could help take down an incumbent:
[…] The internal poll conducted by Impact Research and first shared with Newsweek showed Ager with a single-point lead over Edwards. It showed 45 percent of respondents leaning toward Ager, while 44 percent backed Edwards; 10 percent were undecided.On an informed ballot, when short biographies on each candidate were read, Ager led by seven points (49 percent to 42 percent).
It surveyed 500 likely voters from December 15-17 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points. No other polling has been made public on the race. […]
That last sentence tells you the Edwards campaign does not have anything that disputes the findings of this poll. Otherwise, they would be releasing it.
Chuck Edwards made it to Congress as part of. a feud between then-incumbent congressman Madison Cawthorn and senator Thom Tillis. Tillis recruited Edwards out of the state Senate to take on Cawthorn. Media reports indicated that Edwards benefited greatly from ads aired by a Tillis-tied PAC that got funded with $700K from a senior exec with the scandal-ridden Bahamas-based FTX bitcoin exchange.
A recent member-by-member analysis released by C-SPAN found Chuck Edwards is “more conservative” than 59 percent of the House, but “more liberal” than 79 percent of House Republicans.
The Democrat poll is anticipating Edwards surviving the March primary. He is facing a spirited challenge from conservative businessman and Special Forces veteran Adam Smith.
The GOP majority in the US House currently has a five-seat edge over the Democrats. Republicans can’t afford to lose any seats in the narrowly-divided chamber.
Democrats are expected to lose Don Davis in the 1st congressional district. But he was expected to lose in 2024. And that didn’t happen.
The FTX Bitcoin scandal clearly illustrates the corruption in politics.
$93 million of the stolen money was donated to politicians, political parties, and PACs.
Setting aside the quid pro quo of the huge donations, lets explore the fact that the donations were made with stolen money.
Title of stolen goods can never be transferred, yet of the $93 million, only $14.5 million of the stolen money has been paid back/recovered from the politicians who took it.
Why are politicians and political parties “above the law” and able to keep stolen money?
DC and Raleigh are giant cesspools on both sides of the aisle. They both need a giant enema to flush out the assholes.